Another Anime Convention 2013

• Mail out badges in advance
• Have "Tracks" of panels, like at tech conferences
• Have more reason to go to shows, such as giving a quick bio of the director and his work.
• Treat volunteers with respect (something that I don't think AAC has a problem with)

What do you guys think?

On the mailing thing, mailing can sometimes cause more harm than good, especially when numbers are small enough that customer service isn't a problem. Badges can get lost, people can move, they can get left at home, forged, etc.

On the tracks thing, I guess its sort of like program genres. Like clasifying a panel as "Cosplay," "Culture," "Gaming," etc. I love the idea a lot. Question there is does the staff choose the classification or the panelist.

On the more info part, you've given me a few great ideas that I will bring up with our program book designer. I'd love to see a "why are we showing this" and "why is it cool" sections for each anime in our screening room.

I'm not as married to the idea as the hosts are, but I could see it working. PAX and the big Comicons mail out badges without worrying about forgery...

I'm sure you could also man the rooms with people who know the shows fairly well. I'm sure there's some Film Studies professor at UNH who would trip over themselves for an opportunity like that.

Anyway, my basic idea was that screening rooms for cons tend to not draw many people because people have either A) already seen the show or B) have never heard of it before. I don't see anyway to do anything about A, but B I thought could be fixed by having a panel where someone (probably whoever picked out whatever ends up being shown) gets up and gives a spiel about why the hell you should waste your time watching the show. Like, quick little reviews of each anime that is going to be shown that day.

For example I know Kaiba was supposed to be shown at AAC this year, so if I had been giving the panel I would get up and say something along the lines of:
"You should watch Kaiba because while it looks like a five year old child drew it and the story was based off of a bad acid trip, it is really a very deep show that explores complete psychological questions like mind/body association and the true nature of love. Also when people get shot they melt into a puddle and people sometimes clone themselves in order to have sex with themselves. Yeah, that bit about the story being about a bad acid trip might not be that far off the mark."

Just something to get people interested in the stuff being shown. Besides, who doesn't like to talk about anime they enjoy? Also, as I said before I have no interest in running this panel because I would not be able to stop myself from calling shows like Kamen no Maid Guy and Tsubasa complete and utter wastes of time and I would imagine that would get me in trouble.

It is a different application of the idea, but it got shot down p. bad last time I proposed it.

Actually everyone loved the idea of doing a panel to showcase the upcoming weekend of screening rooms. We just didn't have anyone who had time to do it.

I think that can change this year

I was thinking full schedules done as different "personalities". Like, if you're super mecha manly man, go to these panels, have lunch at this time, check out these dealers, go to these showings. If you're super girly girl go to et cetera.